{"id":4047,"date":"2006-09-20T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/09\/20\/tech-companies-to-senate-no-neut-regs\/"},"modified":"2006-09-20T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T19:54:20","slug":"tech-companies-to-senate-no-neut-regs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/20\/tech-companies-to-senate-no-neut-regs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies to Senate: No Neut Regs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis letter from 100+ tech companies to the Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netcompetition.org\/docs\/pronetcomp\/man_091906.pdf\">on the neut regs is great.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, the Internet has benefited greatly from the relative absence of regulatory restrictions, which has allowed content businesses to grow and prosper. Congress has wisely refrained from burdening this still-evolving medium with regulations, except in those cases where the need for policy action has been clear, and it can be narrowly tailored. This is not the time to deviate from this posture.<\/p>\n<p>Second, it is too soon to enact network neutrality legislation. The problem that the proponents of network neutrality seek to address has not manifested itself in a way that enables us to understand it clearly. Legislation aimed at correcting a nebulous concern may have severe unintended consequences and hobble the rapidly developing new technologies and business models of the Internet. Third, enacting network neutrality \u201cplaceholderlaws\u201d could have the unintended effect of dissuading companies from investing in broadband networks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If our industry leaders are heard, the crazy regulatory regime will not be enacted. Said leaders consist of Cisco, 3M, Nortel, Motorola, and a hundred others.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This letter from 100+ tech companies to the Senate on the neut regs is great. First, the Internet has benefited greatly from the relative absence of regulatory restrictions, which has allowed content businesses to grow and prosper. Congress has wisely refrained from burdening this still-evolving medium with regulations, except in those cases where the need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/20\/tech-companies-to-senate-no-neut-regs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tech companies to Senate: No Neut Regs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-13h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}